Rush Limbaugh, this guy is like the highest paid radio guy there is. On the one hand, who hasn't heard someone doing a Chinese accent and laughed? But on the other hand, this is usually one of your stupid friends, it's not a guy who's making millions on the radio. He should have better material, sure, but you can't really criticize the guy too much. Ching ching, chong chong cha. That can be funny. Come on! The beef I have with this sack of beef is I want to know how Rush Limbaugh judges a guy like...Rush Limbaugh. If some guy he didn't like had a drug problem, would he be cool with it? Like if Obama had a drug problem, would Rush Limbaugh say, "hey, we've all been there man, it's alright." I would guess not. He would use it as an opportunity to slam away. And Rush Limbaugh had a drug problem! I know he got nailed for some prescription drug thing, but some guy I know told me he was running around with him in California smoking weed in these private rich guy weed smoking drug clubs.
Apparently there's a network of drug clubs that the rich guys go to, and this way when they pass out or whatever they're all taken care of. These joints are all over the world. I've never been to one, but I've heard Rush has. I wonder if Rush can do a good Mexican? I've always found British accents the hardest to goof on. I just can't get it right.
Rush Limbaugh's imitation of the Chinese language during a recent speech made by Chinese President Hu Jintao has stirred a backlash among Asian-American lawmakers in California and nationally.
California state Sen. Leland Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco, is leading a fight in demanding an apology from the radio talk show host for what he and others view as racist and derogatory remarks against the Chinese people.
"The comments that he made — the mimicking of the Chinese language — harkens back to when I was a little boy growing up in San Francisco and those were hard days, rather insensitive days," Yee said in an interview Thursday. "You think you've arrived and all of a sudden get shot back to the reality that you're a second-class citizen."
During a Jan. 19 radio program, Limbaugh said there was no translation of the Chinese president's speech during a visit to the White House.
"He was speaking and they weren't translating," Limbaugh said. "They normally translate every couple of words. Hu Jintao was just going ching chong, ching chong cha."
He then launched into a 20-second-long imitation of the Chinese leader's dialect.
The next day, Limbaugh said he "did a remarkable job" of imitating China's president for someone who doesn't know a language spoken by more than 1 billion people.
A telephone and e-mail to Limbaugh's station operator Clear Channel Communications Inc. was not returned Thursday. Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks Inc. is home to Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Ryan Seacrest, Glenn Beck, Bob Costas and Sean Hannity.
An e-mail to Limbaugh's show requesting comment was also not returned.
[Associated Press]
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